Quotes from work

For One More Day

“She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”

“Kids chase the love that eludes them.”

“The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you.
Or who isn't.”

“You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade them in. You can’t lie to them. You can’t run two at once, substituting back and forth.
“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.”

“Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea.”

“The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.”

“When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those
you love.”

“I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.”

“Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.”

“You can go through your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”

“A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.”

“Life goes quickly, doesn't it?”

“Things change when you're not in danger anymore.”

“But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.”

“Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.”

“This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.”

“What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?”

“Sticking with your family is whatit a family.”

“I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.”